<p>Oh, please! Davidson is a college that prior to the basketball success of a year or two ago, few people who weren’t affiliated with the school or who didn’t live in the NC area had heard of. That didn’t make it not a fine, excellent school, of course. </p>
<p>This is ALL regional - which someone like the so-called informatives of the world seem not to understand. </p>
<p>I live in Chicago. Carleton and Grinnell have FAR, FAR more awareness than Davidson and Haverford. Which doesn’t mean anything! </p>
<p>And in other parts of the country, Davidson and Haverford have FAR, FAR more awareness than Carleton and Grinnell! Now what?? </p>
<p>That’s why informative’s assertions that colleges he’s never heard of “don’t deserve” to be in top spots. It just reflects a certain region, which is no more or less important than any other region. Carleton’s lack of widespread knowledge in the east coast is no different from Bowdoin’s lack of widespread knowledge in the midwest. Neither of those things disqualify them from being accurately ranked as top schools.</p>